Gym bros love to focus on how much someone can benchpress and often quote ridiculous figures for a minimum that an adult male should be able to achieve. At the end of the day you're either naturally a big lump of a dude or you're someone who has trained and built up to bigger weight.

I remember watching WSM a few years ago when Mikhail Koklyaev turned up on the Strongman scene and coming from an Olympic weightlifting background had never trained benchpress, he even turned up in his wooden heel weightlifting shoes 😁.

Each to their own and any form of working out is better than sitting on the sofa eating crap but I can't see the appeal of being some meathead wearing a triple ply bench shirt and becoming that immobile you can hardly reach your own ass to wipe it.

Most dudes like me probably grew up on Schwarzenegger action movies and Pro Wrestling and always thought bigger muscles were better or having them makes you "hard" but once you grow up you learn that a guy's chances of winning a fight hinge more on how much he's trained to fight vs how big his muscles are.

Probably more impressed nowadays with stories of how GSP used to train gymnastics when he was in UFC, Diaz brothers doing triathlons or Goggins being able to run long distances but still maintain enough muscle mass to lift more weight than most people.